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• David Honour

  Building Resilience Futures is a very useful book for anyone in a leadership role in an organisation or business. Exploring resilience from a number of angles, including personal, organisational, and national, the author pulls together important threads from each to present a holistic view of developing and maintaining resilience. Resilience is a journey with a destination that changes constantly: and this book provides an important navigational guide.

• Alastair Brown

  As someone who works in and teaches resilience, I have found Building Resilient Futures to be an increasingly valuable go-to resource on the subject. The book is well set out and the insight, understanding and author's expertise make Building Resilient Futures essential for anyone seeking to learn more about resilience and why we all need to be more resilient in a more complex and connected world.

• Simon Collins

  Robert has looked at a huge topic and managed to make the book comprehensive, practical, and interesting! It is a necessary read for anyone interested in resilience, and everybody needs to be interested in resilience!

• Rick Cudworth

  This is a fascinating and well researched book. It is an enjoyable read too. Robert has captured his passion in the subject and provides a wide-ranging and enlightening perspective. I thoroughly recommend it.

• Alan Brown OBE

  “in Building Resilient Future” Robert has found a way to integrate the complexities necessary for businesses and organizations to achieve resilience, it is critical reading for all those responsible for organizational stability.

• Dr Chris Needham-Bennett,

  Passionate, persuasive, and a wake-up call to national resilience complacency. This is not a 'handbook', it is a grenade tossed into the meandering procrastination of national resilience. This a brilliant summary of the enormous challenges of gaining ultimate 'resilience'. Hugely entertaining and challenging. The author’s overview of all aspects of resilience broadens the resilience debate to where it should be. At last, an enjoyable 'must read' for anyone involved in the field. Very simply, professionals, practitioners, students, government ministers, and business leaders should read this now. 'A safer, better world?' – it might be if people read the book and act on it.’

• Dr Pippa Malmgren

  Covid-19 has made us more resilient but now is not the time to claim victory. It's time to read Building Resilient Futures.’

• Michael Center

  Whether a single parent struggling to feed a family, or a nation fighting to take care of its citizens, adversity and crisis impact us all. The resilient are able to pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and move forward. The author does a masterful job of capturing these themes across multiple levels and how to be better prepared.’

• Thomas Aitken MBE

  If you are involved in any way with resilience, risk, or otherwise, this is a must-read. As a contributor to our Corporate Resilience Program, this work has had a significant influence on my thinking and contribution to that program.’

• Dr Liz Royle

  Resilience seems to be becoming the latest buzz word for organisations. “Experts” are emerging with a good sales talk and sticking plaster solutions, yet few people actually understand the complexity and diversity of this subject.
  Too often, it results in a “lip-service” approach that lays the responsibility for being resilient solely with the individual who is deemed “not strong enough” to emerge unscathed from a crisis.
  Crises come in many shapes and sizes – affecting a nation, community, organisation, family and individuals. The response needs to be multi-faceted and holistic.
  In this thought-provoking book, Robert Hall combines perspectives on personal, emotional, organisational, urban, community and national resilience. This broad coverage certainly doesn’t mean the content is superficial though. The book itself is clearly laid out with key lessons in each chapter. It comprises of case studies, historical lessons, anecdotes and theoretical models to produce a well-researched and fascinating resource. Importantly, it includes information on benchmarking and standards – crucial if we are going to give the subject the seriousness it merits.
  Robert Hall is clearly passionate in the message underpinning the varied chapters – as the world faces more upheaval and uncertainty, we need to respond proactively with a shared responsibility for building better communities and a safer world.
  Robert Hall has taken a complex, diverse topic and drawn on his own hugely impressive experience to create essential reading.
  

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